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PlatinumPearl · 10-04-2020, 06:47 PM

Workers protest against the failure from their employers to provide adequate protections in the workplace
of the Amazon delivery hub on National May Day Walkout/Sickout by workers at Amazon, Whole Foods,
Innstacart and Shipt amid the Covid-19 pandemic on May 1, 2020, in Hawthorne, California.

TOPLINE After previously refusing to release coronavirus data on its workforce, Amazon for the first time Thursday disclosed how many employees have been infected with the virus: 19,816, or 1.44% of its workforce.

KEY FACTS
* The number comes from an analysis of 1.37 million Amazon and Whole Foods frontline workers in the U.S. employed at any time from March 1 to September 19, Amazon said.

* Amazon released state-by-state data, which shows employees in Florida and New Mexico had the highest number of cases per 1000 people.

* Based on the infection rate for the general U.S. population, Amazon said it expected 33,952 cases among warehouse workers and Whole Foods employees, which is 42% less than the actual number of cases.

* Amazon has been under pressure to release workforce infection rates for months, with workers resorting to tracking the number of positive cases themselves with crowdsourced databases.

* Amazon hopes to conduct 50,000 coronavirus tests per day across 650 sites starting in November, something it can do because it hired its own lab team with the goal of testing most frontline employees every two weeks.

KEY BACKGROUND
Early in the pandemic, Amazon became a target of labor groups, Democratic lawmakers and internal protests over its coronavirus procedures. Warehouse workers complained about lax enforcement of social distancing guidelines, not enough paid sick leave and called on Amazon to shut down and clean facilities with known infections. Amazon said at the time it is providing masks and temperature checks to employees, as well as staggered shifts and cleanings every 90 minutes. “All in, we've introduced or changed over 150 processes to ensure the health and safety of our teams,” Amazon said.

WHAT’S NEXT
Amazon noted it would be “more powerful if there were similar data from other major employers to compare it to,” urging other companies to follow by releasing their own infection rates.

Website: forbes.com
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachels...r#14423a092e84
Date: October 1, 2020

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PlatinumPearl Member How Do You Identify?: Femme, Human Preferred Pronoun?: She, Her Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: Canada Posts: 1,116 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 948 Thanked 2,354 Times in 863 Posts Rep Power: 21474844	Amazon Says 19,816 Workers Got Covid-19 This Year Workers protest against the failure from their employers to provide adequate protections in the workplace of the Amazon delivery hub on National May Day Walkout/Sickout by workers at Amazon, Whole Foods, Innstacart and Shipt amid the Covid-19 pandemic on May 1, 2020, in Hawthorne, California. TOPLINE After previously refusing to release coronavirus data on its workforce, Amazon for the first time Thursday disclosed how many employees have been infected with the virus: 19,816, or 1.44% of its workforce. KEY FACTS * The number comes from an analysis of 1.37 million Amazon and Whole Foods frontline workers in the U.S. employed at any time from March 1 to September 19, Amazon said. * Amazon released state-by-state data, which shows employees in Florida and New Mexico had the highest number of cases per 1000 people. * Based on the infection rate for the general U.S. population, Amazon said it expected 33,952 cases among warehouse workers and Whole Foods employees, which is 42% less than the actual number of cases. * Amazon has been under pressure to release workforce infection rates for months, with workers resorting to tracking the number of positive cases themselves with crowdsourced databases. * Amazon hopes to conduct 50,000 coronavirus tests per day across 650 sites starting in November, something it can do because it hired its own lab team with the goal of testing most frontline employees every two weeks. KEY BACKGROUND Early in the pandemic, Amazon became a target of labor groups, Democratic lawmakers and internal protests over its coronavirus procedures. Warehouse workers complained about lax enforcement of social distancing guidelines, not enough paid sick leave and called on Amazon to shut down and clean facilities with known infections. Amazon said at the time it is providing masks and temperature checks to employees, as well as staggered shifts and cleanings every 90 minutes. “All in, we've introduced or changed over 150 processes to ensure the health and safety of our teams,” Amazon said. WHAT’S NEXT Amazon noted it would be “more powerful if there were similar data from other major employers to compare it to,” urging other companies to follow by releasing their own infection rates. Website: forbes.com Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachels...r#14423a092e84 Date: October 1, 2020